Past Event News

The ECWS comes to Caerphilly Castle
Over the Easter weekend, the Marquess of Winchester's regiment hosted an event at Caerphilly Castle.
Andrew MacFetters took some photos and videos of the event. We are very grateful that Andrew has allowed us to share them.
Photos on Facebook
Some YouTube videos
Gunfire exchange
Music: fife and drums
17th century

The last of this year's English Civil War Society major events is based around the siege of Gloucester in 1643 and takes place over the weekend of 15th and 16th September. We shall be recreating the siege lines and parts of the battle. There will be a battle re-enactment in

Come and see what happens when a group of English Civil War soldiers are billeted on a reluctant villager. Using some of the period buildings at the Chiltern Open Air Museum, the Marquess of Winchester’s regiment of the English Civil War Society will demonstrate the way soldiers were provided with

Of course the boat lift is several hundred years younger than the Civil War, but one of the last actions of the war took place very close to the site of the nineteenth century engineering marvel.
Over the weekend of 11-12th August 2018, Colonel Edward Montagu’s and John Bright’s Regiments of Foote, of

Hylton Castle was built by Sir William Hylton as his principal residence in about 1400. The rich Hylton family had estates in Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland and by the 13th century had assumed the title of a barony within the Bishopric of Durham.
Hylton Castle was intended to reflect the family’s